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“Some degree of consciousness will probably be retained for 9 to 11 seconds (see chapter 2 under Hypoxia). In rapid sequence thereafter, paralysis will be followed by generalized convulsions and paralysis once again.”

From the Bioastronautics Data Book, on what happens when your space suit ruptures. Death by vacuum is not high on my list of ways to go. Gizmodo’s grim and rather disgusting article details everything you ever wanted to know about “what really happens when you get sucked out of an airlock.”